Data Linkage: Admitted Patient and Hospital Data

Women's Health Australia has Admitted Patient/Hospital data from Australian States and Territories linked to survey data for the 1921-26, 1946-51, and 1973-78 cohorts. The 1989-95 cohort has its data linked to all States and Territories except NSW and ACT. Each State and Territory dataset is distinct in terms of its data contents and date ranges.

Not all of the linked datasets from the state based Admitted Patients data collections include private hospital patients. The New South Wales, Western Australia and Queensland admitted patient datasets do contain both public and private hospital patients. The South Australian, ACT and Tasmanian datasets only have public hospital patients.

NSW and ACT

Admitted Patient data from NSW and ACT were linked in 2017.

Opt-outs from the NSW and ACT linkage included:

309 women from the 1921-26 cohort,

601 women from the 1946-51 cohort, and

725 women from the 1973-78 cohort.

NSW Admitted Patient Data Collection

The NSW Admitted Patient Data Collection includes records for all hospital separations from all NSW public and private hospitals and day procedure centres.

There are 84,405 records from 10,865 individuals.

The earliest record is 2 January 1997 and the latest record is 31 March 2017.

Note that Hospital_Type has a value 4 = Private Hospital. This is not currently on the Data Dictionary.

ACT Admitted Patient Care

The ACT Admitted Patient Care data only has records from Canberra Hospital.

There are 1354 records from 437 individuals.

The earliest record is 02 July 2004 and the latest record is 25 June 2016.

Western Australia

Admitted Patients data (60,914 records from 5,573 individuals) and Emergency Department (29,351 records from 4,725 individuals) from Western Australia were linked in 2018.

The earliest Admitted Patient admission record was January 1970 and the latest record was December 2017.

The earliest Emergency presentation date record was January 2002 and the latest record was October 2018.

The following numbers of women opted out of this linkage:

353 women from the 1921-26 cohort,

753 women from the 1946-51 cohort,

739 women from the 1973-78 cohort, and

38 women from the 1989-95 cohort.

Queensland

The earliest record is July 2007 and the latest record is December 2017. Queensland hospital data was linked earlier and ranged from 2002 to 2011 but the 2002 to 2006 records did not include private hospitals. Therefore these early 2002 to 2006 records were not included in the most recent linkage.

Opt-outs included:

353 women from the 1921-26 cohort,

753 women from the 1946-51 cohort,

738 women from the 1973-78 cohort, and

45 women from the 1989-95 cohort.

South Australia

South Australia Public Hospital Separations data (17748 records from 3438 individuals) data were linked in 2018.

The earliest separation date is July 2001 and the latest record is March 2018.

Women who did not consent to linkage included:

353 women from the 1921-26 cohort,

753 women from the 1946-51 cohort

738 women from the 1973-78 cohort, and

37 women from the 1989-95 cohort.

Tasmania

Tasmanian Public Hospital Admitted Patients Episodes data were linked in August 2018 for the period 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2017.